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ReviewVision (Basel, Switzerland)2019

Eye Movements Actively Reinstate Spatiotemporal Mnemonic Content.

Jordana S Wynn, Kelly Shen, Jennifer D Ryan

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Review in Vision (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

47 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Sparse Spatial Scaffolding for Visual Working Memory.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  4. Spatial and semantic memory reorganize a hippocampal long-axis gradient.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  6. Retrieval-related eye movements are predictive of memory precision.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  9. Spatial and semantic memory reorganize a hippocampal long-axis gradient.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  12. Anticipatory eye gaze as a marker of memory.Communications psychology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Jordana S WynnRotman Research Institute, Baycrest, 3560 Bathurst St., Toronto, ON M6A 2E1, Canada.
Kelly ShenRotman Research Institute, Baycrest, 3560 Bathurst St., Toronto, ON M6A 2E1, Canada.
Jennifer D RyanRotman Research Institute, Baycrest, 3560 Bathurst St., Toronto, ON M6A 2E1, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-9244-7851

Funding

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada 482639
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Eye movements support memory encoding by binding distinct elements of the visual world into coherent representations. However, the role of eye movements in memory retrieval is less clear. We propose that eye movements play a functional role in retrieval by reinstating the encoding context. By overtly shifting attention in a manner that broadly recapitulates the spatial locations and temporal order of encoded content, eye movements facilitate access to, and reactivation of, associated details. Such mnemonic gaze reinstatement may be obligatorily recruited when task demands exceed cognitive resources, as is often observed in older adults. We review research linking gaze reinstatement to retrieval, describe the neural integration between the oculomotor and memory systems, and discuss implications for models of oculomotor control, memory, and aging.

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agingeye movementseye trackinggazememoryretrievalvision

Identifiers

PMID31735822
PMCPMC6802778

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